Today we did an experiment with an Internet Tech Support Scam that is reportedly being found online by many in the Reno Sparks area. Below is a screenshot of what first appears when you happen upon the website at online-system-scan.net. More than likely you were redirected here by a malicious advertisement on another website or…

I will start by saying that some technical mischief as a teenager (or later) does not automatically make a prospective employee undesirable. More often than not it makes them more desirable because you know they’ve been willing to dig in and get their hands dirty. Whether that means they took the family computer apart and…

On the heels of the ShellShock aka Bash disclosure that Mac OS X is included in the list of vulnerable operating systems comes word that hackers are using Reddit to connect Macs to a Botnet. First let’s start with what is a Botnet? A botnet is a collection of programs interconnected via the Internet communicating…

You’ve likely been hearing a lot about ShellShock aka Bash, but what exactly is it and should you be worried? First if you are running a Microsoft environment, then you likely have nothing to worry about. The Bash code injection vulnerability is found primarily on UNIX, LINUX and Mac OS X. Now on to what…

Spear-Phishing, targeted phishing, attacks are on the rise. The increase in these attacks is in many ways being linked to the increased use of mobile devices for online banking, browsing and email. Many of the attacks are taking aim at employees with administrative access to their business networks from their mobile devices. Criminals are using…